Senior Systems Engineer

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Senior Systems Engineer in USA

Ford Motor
Full time
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USA
10/21/2026
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Allen Park, MI

Responsibilities

Lead vehicle access feature and function development, including requirements definition, stakeholder reviews, and enablement of software development teams.
Define, test, and validate combined hardware and system requirements for vehicle access platform features.
Lead integration, debugging, and engineering tests for prototype systems, lab cars, and vehicles.
Conduct architecture investigations and trade-off studies optimizing experience, cost, and performance.
Author and manage CAN and Ethernet interface definitions, signal chains, and system documentation.
Lead software bring-up and validation activities and support vehicle system functionality throughout the product life cycle.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
Strong understanding of systems engineering fundamentals, automotive concepts, systems development, electrical and functional architecture, and system integration.
Experience with model-based systems engineering tools and complex cross-functional feature implementation.
Experience creating and executing component- and system-level test procedures.
Experience using Git in a collaborative development workflow.
More than five years of experience in systems engineering or a similar role is preferred.
Preferred qualifications include a master's degree, expertise with MBSE tools, embedded C, Python, MATLAB, Simulink, SPICE, IQ-FMEA, cryptography, cybersecurity, certificate/key exchanges, NFC, BLE, and UWB.

Benefits

Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new-parent ramp-up programs, subsidized backup childcare, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, and fertility treatment benefits.
Employee and family vehicle discount programs and management leases.
Tuition assistance, employee resource groups, paid community-service time off, paid holidays, and paid vacation with the option to purchase additional vacation time.
Hybrid work arrangement requiring onsite work four or more days per week.

Salary: $115k - $193k/yr

Ford Motor

We don't just make history -- we make the future. Ford put the world on wheels over a century ago, and our teams are re-inventing icons and creating groundbreaking connected and electric vehicles for the next century. We believe in serving our customers, our communities, and the world. If you do,...

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